Oh, lordy, I'm tired.
Jun. 3rd, 2011 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
midnightsjaneIt's been a busy few days here. I worked day shift on Monday, drove out to the farm after work to do the night feeding for little Buddy, helped out Tuesday then came home, got ready for work and worked nights Tuesday and Wednesday. My first two shifts at work were pretty uneventful, the last one was steady, mostly due to an admission, a person who was really sick. Not my patient, but I was helping the admitting RN with all of the things she needed. Luckily my patient was (I thought) stable and almost ready to leave the ICU. I went off for my break at 4 a.m., and had no sooner put my head down for my nap when a Code Blue, ICU was called. I figured it was the new patient...but when I got back from break, it was my patient! He had crashed and burned, and kept my co-workers busy the whole time I was gone. As the Charge Nurse said, it takes 30 years of ICU experience to know exactly when to leave for break. LOL.
To top it all off, I was fighting off a rerun of the cold I had last month. Yuck. Came home and slept for about 4 hours, then went back out to the farm yesterday afternoon..oh, and before I went to bed, I made a Leek and potato pie to take for our dinner. I got there around 4 p.m. Sue had already fed everyone, so we went in and had our dinner. It was very yummy. Comfort food.
While I was at work, Sue had a big problem with Kismet, our pregnant mare. She lay down in her stall, and couldn't get up again. She's very big, almost ready to have the baby, and her belly was getting in the way. She has a bum leg (her hock was broken when she was a youngster, and she had surgery to fix it; she is always a bit stiff and with the pregnancy, her legs are puffy). In the end, Sue had to call our Vet, who came with a helper, and it took 5 people to get Kismet up and standing. We are very worried that if she goes down again and we're there alone it will be a big problem, so we're going to take the Vet's advice and take her to the Clinic tomorrow. She will stay there until the baby is born; we just can't take any chances with her after what happened to Phaedra. Everything looks fine, the baby is great, and all looks to be proceeding according to nature's plan. Dr. Tracy ultrasounded Kizzie again yesterday to check, and she was very happy with how everything looks. Even though it will be a bit expensive, we feel better doing this, because Dr. Samper and Dr. Tracy are there to keep a constant check on her; there are other mares there waiting to have their foals, and there is someone on duty 24 hours a day, keeping watch. It takes a huge load off our shoulders, particularly when I have to be at work. I worry about Sue being there alone should anything happen. Jack is going to hitch up our trailer tomorrow and take Kismet to the Clinic, then come back and take his horse Goldie over to the trainer's stable. Goldie is going to "summer camp" for two months, to give her some experiences away from the farm.
It will give us a break, less work for us. Buddy needs a lot of our attention right now, and we're all pretty tired. Kelly, our employee, is just wonderful; she has been working so hard. We're lucky to have her; she is really good with Buddy, and loves him to bits. He is growing like a weed! He is now 11 days old, and is a good 4 inches taller and about 30 pounds heavier than he was ten days ago. He's got huge amounts of energy, and has been racing around his paddock. We are thrilled with how well he's doing.
I got up at 4 a.m. to feed him and then went back to bed until 8. We had all the stalls to clean, today being Kelly's day off. I did the big barn..10 stalls. By the last one, I was huffing and puffing a bit. We brought everyone in, cleaned the paddocks and then I drove home. Had a bite of supper, and now I'm ready to collapse.
I treated myself to a new book by Mercedes Lackey this evening on the way home; a new one in her Elemental Masters series called Unnatural Issue. I haven't spent any money on myself in ages; everything has been going to keeping the farm and the horses going and my personal bills paid, etc. I decided just this once I could throw caution to the wind and spend a little of my hard earned cash on something totally for me. How times have changed! Last year I wouldn't have thought twice about it, but now I haven't bought a new book in months; I've been going to the Library, and working my way through my own store of books. I reread a lot of my books from time to time. Just now I'm rereading the Diane Duane Rihannsu Star Trek series that started with My Enemy, My Ally and ended with The Empty Chair. I love her world building and her interpretation of the Romulan society. One of the best writers of the Star Trek novels, for sure.
Anyway, that's what I've been up to these past days. Hopefully, things are going to settle down a bit now, but I'm not holding my breath!
To top it all off, I was fighting off a rerun of the cold I had last month. Yuck. Came home and slept for about 4 hours, then went back out to the farm yesterday afternoon..oh, and before I went to bed, I made a Leek and potato pie to take for our dinner. I got there around 4 p.m. Sue had already fed everyone, so we went in and had our dinner. It was very yummy. Comfort food.
While I was at work, Sue had a big problem with Kismet, our pregnant mare. She lay down in her stall, and couldn't get up again. She's very big, almost ready to have the baby, and her belly was getting in the way. She has a bum leg (her hock was broken when she was a youngster, and she had surgery to fix it; she is always a bit stiff and with the pregnancy, her legs are puffy). In the end, Sue had to call our Vet, who came with a helper, and it took 5 people to get Kismet up and standing. We are very worried that if she goes down again and we're there alone it will be a big problem, so we're going to take the Vet's advice and take her to the Clinic tomorrow. She will stay there until the baby is born; we just can't take any chances with her after what happened to Phaedra. Everything looks fine, the baby is great, and all looks to be proceeding according to nature's plan. Dr. Tracy ultrasounded Kizzie again yesterday to check, and she was very happy with how everything looks. Even though it will be a bit expensive, we feel better doing this, because Dr. Samper and Dr. Tracy are there to keep a constant check on her; there are other mares there waiting to have their foals, and there is someone on duty 24 hours a day, keeping watch. It takes a huge load off our shoulders, particularly when I have to be at work. I worry about Sue being there alone should anything happen. Jack is going to hitch up our trailer tomorrow and take Kismet to the Clinic, then come back and take his horse Goldie over to the trainer's stable. Goldie is going to "summer camp" for two months, to give her some experiences away from the farm.
It will give us a break, less work for us. Buddy needs a lot of our attention right now, and we're all pretty tired. Kelly, our employee, is just wonderful; she has been working so hard. We're lucky to have her; she is really good with Buddy, and loves him to bits. He is growing like a weed! He is now 11 days old, and is a good 4 inches taller and about 30 pounds heavier than he was ten days ago. He's got huge amounts of energy, and has been racing around his paddock. We are thrilled with how well he's doing.
I got up at 4 a.m. to feed him and then went back to bed until 8. We had all the stalls to clean, today being Kelly's day off. I did the big barn..10 stalls. By the last one, I was huffing and puffing a bit. We brought everyone in, cleaned the paddocks and then I drove home. Had a bite of supper, and now I'm ready to collapse.
I treated myself to a new book by Mercedes Lackey this evening on the way home; a new one in her Elemental Masters series called Unnatural Issue. I haven't spent any money on myself in ages; everything has been going to keeping the farm and the horses going and my personal bills paid, etc. I decided just this once I could throw caution to the wind and spend a little of my hard earned cash on something totally for me. How times have changed! Last year I wouldn't have thought twice about it, but now I haven't bought a new book in months; I've been going to the Library, and working my way through my own store of books. I reread a lot of my books from time to time. Just now I'm rereading the Diane Duane Rihannsu Star Trek series that started with My Enemy, My Ally and ended with The Empty Chair. I love her world building and her interpretation of the Romulan society. One of the best writers of the Star Trek novels, for sure.
Anyway, that's what I've been up to these past days. Hopefully, things are going to settle down a bit now, but I'm not holding my breath!
